Hashimoto’s and Goitrogens it’s Not What You Think

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I'm going to start hitting some uh some of the common things that people see online
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relative to thyroid today we're going to be talking about goitrogens um we're probably going to be talking
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about in in the future we're probably going to be talking about blood pressure but some
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some seemingly innocuous things like like mercury
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like alcohol like sleep like cigarette smoking some of the things like duh but
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i think it might be good to go into them for uh for the reasons that you'll find out
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if you stay around and watch what we're going to present to you but today we're going to do goitrogens and
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the reason we're going to do that is not unlike iodine which we've already done for those of you who
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are the iodine thyroid people just know not for hashimoto's you can watch that presentation we got
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we had a couple of them on online on powerhealthtalk.com and with over the supporting references
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and all that so but again goitrogens kind of fall in the same category goitrogens
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are vegetables and there is a ton of them and i'm not going to go over all of them there's kohlrabi there's
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spinach there's broccoli there's collard greens cauliflower all the things that are good for you
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okay were discovered back in 1928 to stop iodine which is one of the reasons i thought of doing
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this because we just did the iodine and uh it stops iodine from going into the thyroid
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now here remember here's how your thyroid hormone is made
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there is a it's at first the brain tells the brain tells the thyroid there's not
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enough thyroid hormone in the system and uh and then that
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puts out something called thyroid stimulating hormone so that hormone from the pituitary gland
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stimulates the thyroid to make hormone and it stimulates this
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thyroid peroxidase enzyme that all of you have measured to see if you have hashimoto's
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and that enzyme then and there's other things um with hydrogen peroxide and stuff but
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i'm going to keep this really simple okay so then that enzyme helps to suck iodine
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out of your bloodstream and attach it to one molecule of something called tyrosine
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and tyrosine is t and then it's t4 well the four are four atoms of iodine okay so t4 is one
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protein called amino acid called tyrosine and then these are all iodine so why
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so so goitrogens were discovered in 1928 to block iodine from coming in and thus it would
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cause you to make less t4 and then it would cause your tsh to go up and and then you'd be hypothyroid okay
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hypothyroid because you don't have enough iodine coming in to make the thyroid hormone so um so that was
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kind of the holy grail of alternative medicine for years i i did a lot of um george goodhart's work with muscle
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testing uh and and and supplementation back in the early 80s like 1980
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1985 1986. and um and that was it you know it was like you tested the person's thyroid their arm
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went down you gave them tyrosine and iodine you know what most time it worked
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so this is the salient point on that we've changed since then hashimoto's was not some sort of an
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epidemic which is what it is right now i was reading about it the other day and it's
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it's crazy it's being estimated that possibly a third of the country has hashimoto's it's been established that
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10 to 15 percent have it for sure but there's something called silent hashimoto's and they did a study where
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they just tested a bunch of people who who didn't have any thyroid symptoms they just tested them to see and uh and
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like 35 percent of them had antibodies their thyroid that just wasn't
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expressing themselves yet so things have changed we now have developed lifestyle changes and just a
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number of things that have caused this explosion of autoimmunity in general
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of which hashimoto's is by far the most prevalent autoimmune condition out there today so the
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goitrogen thing doesn't work anymore and here's why glucan genes are bad for hypothyroidism we just discussed
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that good for hashimoto's because the the goitrogens
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by blocking that iodine are stopping that enzyme that we talked about a moment ago
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i said this is a thyroid peroxidase enzyme it takes this and puts these together
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but it also is the enzyme that they measure okay that develops antibodies to it so you do so you you do
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it you test for antibodies to the tpo's enzyme that's one of two tests
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um anti-thyroglobulin test and tpo test those are the two tests you want to see if somebody's got
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hashimoto's so basically if hashimoto if you have if you have other triggers that are firing up
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inflammatory responses that causes uh an increase in the enzyme telling you know taking
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iodine out of your bloodstream and that's when you start getting shaky heart
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palpitations anxiety insomnia maybe night sweats so there's a percentage of you with that you'll lose
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weight and you can't put it back on this is aided by eating goitrogens by eating and i
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mean the gorgeous are like i don't have them all memorized okay it's not my thing
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but there's tons of them okay but the main ones you would know would be like kohlrabi mustard greens uh spinach
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broccoli brussels sprouts bok choy cabbage cauliflower i mean you can look them up online just like i just did
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and and uh and and these are good for you as a hashimoto's
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patient these are good for you and there's a big confusion i i a lot of these topics come up when i
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start seeing these trends in the patients that are coming in the door and all of a sudden
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i'm getting people who are on goychu who are off goitrogens and as my mentor would say
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well that's so 60s okay not like in 1960s and and maybe he would know better than i would
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because he's the one who pretty much discovered the hashimoto's was really a big problem years ago but but
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uh it's definitely a different world right now it's the hashimoto's changes everything where
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where iodine is good for hypothyroidism not good for hashimoto's goitrogens are good for hypothyroidism not good for
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osmosis i i can't even remember last time i saw somebody hypothyroid i mean they don't
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come in here hypothyroid people go to the doctor that the small percentage of them that are there i
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think it's estimated that now 90 95 of hypothyroidism is actually hashimoto's
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they take their medication their tsh gets normal life is good for them they go off and
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enjoy life the rest of us all struggle because we have hashimoto's
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there's 39 different triggers so the medication isn't working right and and so uh so that group
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including me good goitrogens good okay so i hope that clears that up and that's and
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listen to me okay don't don't if you read the articles like i just read before i came on here just to
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kind of check out why everybody's coming in here on goitrogens don't listen to them
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they're talking about hypothyroid nobody has hypothyroid anymore
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okay don't listen to them listen to me okay quitrogens good for hashimoto's iodine bad for hashimoto's okay
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so that's it for today and uh and and and i hope that clears that up for you all right